Issue 21593: Clarify re.search documentation first match (original) (raw)
This issue has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/65792
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| Title: | Clarify re.search documentation first match | ||
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| Type: | enhancement | Stage: | resolved |
| Components: | Documentation, Regular Expressions | Versions: | Python 3.6, Python 3.5, Python 2.7 |
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| Status: | closed | Resolution: | fixed |
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| Dependencies: | Superseder: | ||
| Assigned To: | terry.reedy | Nosy List: | Joshua.Landau, berker.peksag, docs@python, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, python-dev, terry.reedy |
| Priority: | normal | Keywords: |
Created on 2014-05-28 14:39 by Joshua.Landau, last changed 2022-04-11 14:58 by admin. This issue is now closed.
| Messages (6) | ||
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| msg219270 - (view) | Author: Joshua Landau (Joshua.Landau) * | Date: 2014-05-28 14:39 |
| The documentation for re.search does not state that it returns the first match. This should be added, or a clarification added if this is implementation-defined. https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.search --- See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23906400/is-regular-expression-search-guaranteed-to-return-first-match | ||
| msg219420 - (view) | Author: Terry J. Reedy (terry.reedy) *  |
Date: 2014-05-30 19:51 |
| Since I am 99.999% sure that first is intended, I will change 'a location' to 'the first location'. | ||
| msg219426 - (view) | Author: Roundup Robot (python-dev)  |
Date: 2014-05-30 20:20 |
| New changeset f7bb1d73a341 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '2.7': Issue #21593: (from StackOverflow) minor doc clarification for re.search. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/f7bb1d73a341 New changeset 6013a112aba0 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '3.4': Issue #21593: (from StackOverflow) minor doc clarification for re.search. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6013a112aba0 | ||
| msg243187 - (view) | Author: Joshua Landau (Joshua.Landau) * | Date: 2015-05-14 12:47 |
| This should also be applied to regex.search's docstring. https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/re.html#re.regex.search | ||
| msg267838 - (view) | Author: Roundup Robot (python-dev) |
Date: 2016-06-08 11:57 |
| New changeset 48bb48e7499d by Berker Peksag in branch '3.5': Issue #21593: Clarify that re.search() returns the first match https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/48bb48e7499d New changeset 243b95782059 by Berker Peksag in branch 'default': Issue #21593: Merge from 3.5 https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/243b95782059 | ||
| msg267839 - (view) | Author: Berker Peksag (berker.peksag) * |
Date: 2016-06-08 11:58 |
| > This should also be applied to regex.search's docstring. Done. |
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2022-04-11 14:58:04 | admin | set | github: 65792 |
| 2016-06-08 11:58:29 | berker.peksag | set | status: open -> closednosy: + berker.peksagmessages: + resolution: fixedstage: commit review -> resolved |
| 2016-06-08 11:57:40 | python-dev | set | messages: + |
| 2016-01-03 10:16:53 | ezio.melotti | set | nosy: + ezio.melotti, mrabarnettstage: resolved -> commit reviewcomponents: + Regular Expressionsversions: - Python 3.4 |
| 2015-10-23 13🔞16 | Joshua.Landau | set | versions: + Python 3.6 |
| 2015-05-14 12:47:21 | Joshua.Landau | set | status: closed -> openresolution: fixed -> (no value)messages: + |
| 2014-05-31 00:13:26 | terry.reedy | set | status: open -> closedresolution: fixedstage: needs patch -> resolved |
| 2014-05-30 20:20:52 | python-dev | set | nosy: + python-devmessages: + |
| 2014-05-30 19:51:50 | terry.reedy | set | assignee: docs@python -> terry.reedytype: enhancementversions: - Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3nosy: + terry.reedymessages: + stage: needs patch |
| 2014-05-28 14:39:26 | Joshua.Landau | create |